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...write the whole paper in French I was obliged to mark you low." What can be more unfair, since the length of the paper compels one, in order to finish it, to write in English? What would be the result were the same arbitrary rule applied to Greek or German? Half the men would be conditioned. This is a case, I think, that deserves investigation...
WHEN the Faculty decided to extend to Juniors the privilege of voluntary recitations, it was not without some apprehension that the friends of this new rule watched the result of its application to any other than the highest class. But every Junior who has at heart his own interests, as well as a proper regard for the reputation and prosperity of Harvard, and a desire for her success in the reform methods which she has undertaken to introduce, must have appreciated the responsibility thrown upon his shoulders during this trial-year of a system which relieves him from the slavery...
SPARRING.There is one exceedingly good rule in the laws of "Sparring" in the H. A. A. Constitution which we hope to see strictly enforced. This is a rule making the "set-to" of three minutes' duration, best two in three, and thirty seconds between each bout. This is a capital rule, and will render it impossible for any man to win his bout unless he is in good hard condition, as he should...
...financial condition to the authorities of Harvard College, and causes them to object to have the fact of their pecuniary embarrassment solemnly proclaimed in the Catalogue. The competitive conditions of business and professional life make such expositions simply impossible. The clergy, to be sure, form an exception to this rule as to many others. A country minister, who has a thousand dollars a year and six children, will have no hesitation in stating these facts. In his sacred calling poverty is always honorable, and the salary received is a matter of record and general notoriety. A confession of his financial...
...laid in a store of Red Tickets for the winter, returning to College from his Admiring Family (conspicuous by reason of a brightly varnished Cane), disembarked at Dana Street. The conductor, however, pointing at him the Finger of Scorn, exclaimed: "That Man was probably ignorant that by the new Rule his Ticket would convey him to The Square, Ha! Ha!" The Freshman, overhearing the low-minded Fellow, determined to overtake the Car, but slipped on the Ice and, falling, broke his Cane. "Alas!" cried he, blushing at his Discomfiture, "had I but formerly bought White Tickets, this Calamity would never...